White Hill Mansion

White Hill Mansion stands at the end of a long avenue on a bluff overlooking the Delaware River. The earliest known sections of the house were built in the eighteenth century, and many additions and changes followed over the next two centuries. In the eighteenth century it became the home of the Robert Field family, early settlers of the area then known as White Hill. The Fields were prominent in business and political affairs over several generations, and Fieldsboro is named for them. During the American Revolution, the house was a regional landmark and for a time was occupied by mercenaries working for the British army. In the 1920s, the mansion was converted into a restaurant that remained a popular landmark for 50 years. Restoration work is planned for the house, now owned by the Borough of Fieldsboro, and White Hill Mansion is listed in the New Jersey Register of Historic Places. The Field's original c. 1725 brick home stood at the end of what is now Delaware Street near a busy wharf, ferry crossing, and landing. It was used as a tavern as early as 1765 and was variously known as the Field-Stevens house, Richard's Tavern, and White Hill. It also figured in the Revolutionary War, was owned and operated by the Camden and Amboy Railroad from the 1830s to after 1870, later served as a private home for several owners, and was destroyed by fire in the 1970s.

Fieldsboro, New Jersey · United States